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A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:21 pm
by AlecTBM
Hello
I have seen that making thumbnails take quite som time, and is really CPU heavy.
The is an lighter and faster way of doing this.
ffmpegthumbnailer is an project that aimes to this
http://code.google.com/p/ffmpegthumbnailer/

Is there posible to implent this?

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:16 pm
by zip
Serviio already uses ffmpeg to generate the thumbnails.

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:03 pm
by AlecTBM
Yes, but serviio uses at least one minute, and I just checked the ffmpegthumbnailer CLI version:
real 0m0.050s
user 0m0.036s
sys 0m0.016s

The different is big in both time and CPU used

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:08 am
by zip
There is going to be hopefully an improvement in 0.6 in this regard

Re: A better way of getting thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:38 pm
by AlecTBM
Very good :)